Don Mee Choi and the Adverbs of War ‘Hardly War’ is a linguistic battlefield. By Paul Constant

Choi assembled the book around documents from her father’s career as a photographer in the Korean and Vietnam wars Clearly this impact of his work on her is shown. Her book is constructed from poems, chunks of prose, sheet music, photographs, collage, and even the script for an (incredibly short) opera, Hardly War is unlike anything you’ve ever seen…Hardly War has taken an evolutionary leap of a generation or six beyond its predecessor.